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PIERRE-JOSEPH REDOUTÉ | Tulipe sauvage (Tulipa sylvestris)
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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Description
- Pierre-Joseph Redouté
- Tulipe sauvage (Tulipa sylvestris)
- Watercolour and bodycolour, with touches of gum arabic, over black chalk, on vellum;signed in brown ink, lower left: P.J. Redouté
- 470 by 336 mm
Provenance
Acquired from the artist by Empress Josephine;
thence by descent to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Bavaria;
thence by descent until sold, ("Sale of the Library of Eugène de Beauharnais"), Zurich, Braus-Riggenbach and Ulrico Hoepli, 23 May 1935, lot 82;
Erhard Weyhe, New York;
sale (''Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Liliacées"), New York, Sotheby's, 20 November 1985, lot 165, to W. Graham Arader, New York
thence by descent to Prince Eugène de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenberg, Bavaria;
thence by descent until sold, ("Sale of the Library of Eugène de Beauharnais"), Zurich, Braus-Riggenbach and Ulrico Hoepli, 23 May 1935, lot 82;
Erhard Weyhe, New York;
sale (''Pierre-Joseph Redouté's Liliacées"), New York, Sotheby's, 20 November 1985, lot 165, to W. Graham Arader, New York
Catalogue Note
See note to the previous lot.